Some key themes emerging from #YHFSummit this morning
1. We need to be better informed: that means better data about young people, better understanding among young people about health concerns/conditions/solutions
2. Young people need to be better included: that's about governance, advocacy, lived experience.
3. Services (design, delivery, access, health practitioner behaviour) #YHFSummit
4. Better technology navigation/access, how can technology better enable lived experience too
5. COVID - how better acknowledge in health system that COVID is a major, disproportionate disruptor in the lives of young people? "Loss, grief, restrictions, missed opportunities...real sense you can't earn this time back" #YHFSummit
Need to actively canvass places for young people to be heard; and training so, when they bring ideas, they understand the governance/advocacy/processes that enable them to do so most powerfully #YHFSummit#ideas AND, see lovehearts, pay them!
"Build cultural competence into every tender as a requirement."
"Lived experience ought to be part of all practitioner training"
"It feels like we spend a lot of time teaching and training young people to be acceptable to the status quo - I wonder if we're investing as much energy in shifting those systems."
"I found it took a long time to figure out that I wasn't "supposed" to act a certain way to be professional, because no one said otherwise." #YHFSummit
"And it's worth being critical about who 'professionalism' serves and its roots in white supremacy etc. I love that young people keep showing us different ways to engage." #YHFSummit
"Looking at the upstream interventions that will help young people transition to a 'new normal'."
@andrewhollo says every generation has its own event, the pandemic is one.
Reads out call for a road map for young people "to be able to reclaim lost opportunity".
Very strong focus at #YHFSummit on SDOH in pandemic responses, particularly income support (some have benefited, some have lost), devaluing of 'essential' services (which generally lower earning)
"Lived experience needs to be embedded in every aspect of the health system."
"More funding for preventive health."
"Carbon tax, removal of capital gain tax exemptions..."
Agrees with @jahintanvir_ on need to be solutions focused, and participant comment, 'should we be thinking about young people, supporting them to be health 'creators', not health 'consumers'." #YHFSummit
Today @mariemcinerney is joining the @yoorrookjc's #WalkForTruth on Wadawurrung Country in Geelong. You can join this historic journey led by Commissioner Travis Lovett, which will finish next week at Parliament in Naarm/Melbourne croakey.org/reporting-from…
Gathering for #walkfortruth on Wadawurrung Country
Session now at #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth on: Driving Change – Departmental Commitments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Hearing from Ailsa Lively, CEO Gindaja Treatment and Healing, talks about outdated processes for justice groups, incl requiring Ministerial approval to become a member, creating major bottlenecks in processes. #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth
Lively also looking to know new Qld Govt plans around alcohol management plans, which she says operate under "very racist legislation". "The drinking that happened at the pub now happens at home". #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth
Day 2 of @QAIHC_QLD's annual member conference #RealinQld #IndigenousHealth, set to get underway here in Meanjin/Brisbane on Turrbal and Jagera Country with a focus on Indigenous data sovereignty, Blak excellence
First up: Graham Bidois Cameron, Director of Māori Public Health, National Public Health Service, Health New Zealand/Aotearoa on: Data as a story, not just a statistic #RealinQld #IndigenousHealth
Letting data dominate leads to a deficit focus for Māori, says Cameron #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth
It's been a tough time in Aotearoa/New Zealand for Maori self-determination and health under the new govt: we're hearing next from Janice Kuka and Rāwiri Crawford, Ngā Mataapuna Oranga, on 'navigating a changing political landscape' @QAIHC_QLD #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth
Photo of young people participating in Hīkoi mō te Tiriti ('March for the Treaty') were protests in Aotearoa/New Zealand against the Treaty Principles Bill proposed last year @QAIHC_QLD #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth
@QAIHC_QLD "Can your mountain swim?" Janice Kuka boasts her one upmanship to other Maori communities #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth
And we're off at @QAIHC_QLD's #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth state members conference, on Turrbal and Yuggera Country, to be led by @Dan_Bourchier in the MC chair
Welcome to Country at #RealInQld2025 #IndigenousHealth from Shannon Ruska and Tribal Experiences
Thank you for gracing us with the voices of your ancestors: Janice Kuka and Rāwiri Crawford, Ngā Mataapuna Oranga respond with a Mihimihi in response to Welcome to Country from Tribal Experiences at @QAIHC_QLD #RealInQld2025 conf
Hey all! I’m Erin, a white Australian woman. I was born and raised in #Naarm, on the land of the #Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I’ve been many different versions of myself. Most recently I’m a psychologist, research assistant, and #PhD student
#PhDVoices
For most of my life it's just been my mother, brother, and me. Things weren't always easy but we were always supported - in #learning and in life. I'm lucky that I've always been able to try things out without being scared of failure or judgement. It's all been an #adventure
I've always wanted to do a #PhD, ever since I was little. It was part of my life plan: grow up (never!), be six feet tall (not even close), visit #Queensland (tick - roller coasters are great), and get a PhD (in progress). I didn't know what about. I just knew I loved learning